Publications
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Assemblages of cancer
(2025)
Assemblages of Cancer offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy, linking patients’ experiences with the biomedical, political and cultural context of the disease. The book is based ...
Comradely objects
(2020)
The major part of this book project was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 700913.<br/>This book is about two distinct but ...
Chapter 8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the ‘contagious Arab’ in the Mediterranean, 1830s–1900
(2018)
This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed ...
Progress and pathology
(2020)
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of ...
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914: Space, identity and power
(2018)
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its ...
Chapter 6 Prevention and stigma
(2018)
This chapter investigates the use of quarantine as an instrument of social control and as dispositive for the construction and stigmatization of the Muslim ‘other’. The study takes the under-researched case of the Hajj to ...
Chapter 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî
(2018)
This chapter examines the writings of the renowned late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî, the first known traveller from his country to leave an account of European quarantine as experienced ...
Solidarity – Nature, grounds, and value
(2024)
In a world of deep political divisions and rising inequality, people feel the need for some form of collective resistance and transformative joint action. Calls for solidarity are heard everywhere. This book presents a ...
Chapter Talk shows and 'tanorexia'
(2024)
The rise in melanoma skin cancer rates from the 1950s in mostly fair-skinned populations, such as in Britain, triggered a global panic on skin cancer in the 1990s. Some countries tightened restrictions on sunbeds to lower ...
Chapter Girlhood menstrual management and the 'culture of concealment' in postwar Britain
(2024)
In 1996, 238 cis-gendered women responded to the Mass Observation (MO) Directive ‘Women’s sanitary protection and menstruation’. The Directive asked for stories, anecdotes, beliefs, and observations about menstrual management, ...
Chapter Sunbeds, dihydroxyacetone (DHA) fake tan, and MelanoTan injections
(2025)
By the early 1990s, a drastic increase in malignant melanoma rates—mainly in the UK, Europe, America, and Australia—sparked significant concern about skin cancer. In Britain, medical experts and the media attempted to ...
Chapter Cultivating vulnerability
(2024)
This chapter is a personal reflection on the author’s doubts, whilst leading an oral history project, about power dynamics within the interviewer–interviewee relationship, the risks of abuse of power and of paternalism, ...
Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
(2025)
By the early 1990s, a drastic increase in malignant melanoma rates—mainly in the UK, Europe, America, and Australia—sparked significant concern about skin cancer. In Britain, medical experts and the media attempted to ...
Chapter Writing everyday life into law
(2024)
In 1977, a curious and short-lived social security benefit came into being. Housewife’s Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension (HNCIP) was assessed through a ‘household duties test’ which sought to determine whether a woman ...
Chapter ‘What your generation probably don’t understand is …’
(2024)
Whilst it is recognised that oral history fosters discussion across generations, there remains scope to consider how generational perceptions of subjectivity, as expressed by both the interviewer and interviewee, inform ...
‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
(2024)
This volume introduction sets out the concept of ‘everyday health’ and its relation to embodiment and selfhood. It charts how and why ‘everyday health’ has assumed such importance since 1950, including: the rise of welfare ...
Chapter A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people's everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s
(2024)
This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
This volume introduction sets out the concept of ‘everyday health’ and its relation to embodiment and selfhood. It charts how and why ‘everyday health’ has assumed such importance since 1950, including: the rise of welfare ...
Chapter Queering the agony aunt
(2024)
A discussion of public engagement ‘on the ground’ rather than an idealised account, this chapter demonstrates some of the messiness that shifts in research and encounters with different publics can bring to public engagement ...
Chapter 'Thirty years behind England'? Framing 'natural' childbirth in postwar Canada
(2024)
Following the North American publication of British obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read’s Childbirth Without Fear in 1944, natural childbirth theories reached new audiences, including Canadians who were interested in what they ...